Murtaza has been accused, with two other people, of beating the father and sister of his ex-girlfriend to death and then setting their bodies on fire in 2007, ABC News reports. Bilotti is accused of helping a former boyfriend shoot and kill a man in 2010. Well, some girls do have a type.

The romance began when Bilotti’s cellmate suggested to Bilotti that he write to Murtaza. The two have only seen each other occasionally and have never kissed or touched; they were married through a glass window and a chain-link fence via phone by Richardson, who joked at the end “You can both blow kisses at each other.”

It’s actually not that hard to fathom; if you’re facing murder charges, having someone you just met like you, much less love you, must be dumbfounding and something you’d likely hang onto like a life raft. On the other hand, sounds like they didn’t do the both-hands-on-the-knife-cake-cutting thing, which is probably good.